Medicine and healing in the premodern West : a history in documents / edited by Winston Black.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Black, Winston E., 1977- editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Broadview sources series

The Broadview sources series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Healing.

History.

Medicine.

Medicine--History--Sources.

Healing--History--Sources.

History of Medicine.

History, Ancient.

Medical Subjects:

History of Medicine.

History, Ancient.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle Ages. Featuring nearly one hundred primary documents and images, this book introduces students and scholars to the words and ideas of prominent physicians and humble healers, men and women, from across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. Each of the ten chronological and thematic chapters is given a significant historical introduction, in which each primary source is described in its original context. Many of the included source texts are newly translated by the editor, some of them appearing in English for the first time."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Pt 1 : The earliest medical writings of the near east and Mediterranean (ca. 2000-700 BCE)

Pt 2 : Medicine and healing among the ancient Greeks (ca. 500 BCE-200 CE)

Rational medicine in the age of Hippocrates

Asclepius, the god of physicians

Pt. 3 : Professional medicine in the Roman Mediterranean (ca. 1-300 CE)

Pt 4 : Practical medicine for the Roman family and home (ca. 1-500 CE)

Pt. 5 : Distilling classical medicine in late antiquity (ca. 300-700 CE)

Pt. 6 : Medical diversity in the early middle ages (ca. 600-1000 CE)

Monotheism and medicine

Early medieval responses to plague and pestilence

Pt. 7 : The Arabic tradition of learned medicine (ca. 900-1400 CE)

Pt. 8 : Learned medicine in high medieval Europe (ca. 1000-1400 CE)

Humors, complexion, and uroscopy

Explaining diseases

Observation and authority

Pt. 9 : Medical practice in the high middle ages (ca. 1000-1400 CE)

Herbalism and pharmacology

Arabic and Latin surgery

Medieval obstetrics and gynecology

Pt. 10 : Medicine and the supernatural : competitors or partners? (ca. 1000-1400 CE).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 263-268).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Medicine and healing in the premodern West.

ISBN:

9781554813902

1554813905

OCLC:

1130310064

Publisher Number:

99983732397